Safety Tips Of The Day

[89newb]

Ill go first

1) When putting your car on jackstands, chock the wheels and engage the emergancy brake! I had my festy land on my foot today. no brake but it still hurts >.<

[anomoly40]

Blame it on someone else.

[Pu241]

What, you didn't have a friend do this to you?

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Why didn't you post this yesterday so I wouldnt of had my car almost crush me then? Day late and a dollar short..

I wish I had an ebrake still ...been without for 3 months or so, got the parts to fix it headed my way tho, hopefully it'll be resolved this week!

How's your foot? Pancaked or just hurting?

[Pu241]

Parts to fix the ebrake:

Broken cable can be repaired for less than $5

No releasing or non engaging ebrake can be repaired by pulling and breaking loose the ebrake pivot mechanism.
Free, but lots of time.

If the cable is stretched there are ways to shorten it up or a replacement might be needed.
Free to whatever you can get a replacement cable for.

This one of those things that is nice to have working.

[pyroom]

Parts to fix the ebrake:

Broken cable can be repaired for less than $5

No releasing or non engaging ebrake can be repaired by pulling and breaking loose the ebrake pivot mechanism.
Free, but lots of time.

If the cable is stretched there are ways to shorten it up or a replacement might be needed.
Free to whatever you can get a replacement cable for.

This one of those things that is nice to have working.

can you link something for reliably shortening the ebrake? Whatever i do ends up coming off the cable.

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It really is tho isn't it? This is the piece I've been needing, somehow, the metal piece with teeth jumped off the spinny piece and grinded the teeth off rubbing against the inside of the drum in the 20 feet it took me to stop when I heard it grinding. I pulled the whole metal piece out of the drum so the wheel would be functional without worries of anything getting in the way..




As much as it pains me to admit it, I did go to harbor freight the other day :/

BUT in my defense, I needed a birthday present for my mom, and my friend told me they have electric flyswatters for like 2.50..which is true, they're AWESOME!! ZAP!

Anyway..I took a minute to browse their inventory and they had the ebrake wire for just a couple bucks. Mines stretched pretty bad, I've got it tightened up @ the lever inside almost as far as it'll go. So I might be replacing it soon. I'm not sure if tightening it had something to do with it breaking, but when I got the car the ebrake wouldnt hold on any type of incline.

[89newb]

Why didn't you post this yesterday so I wouldnt of had my car almost crush me then? Day late and a dollar short..

I wish I had an ebrake still ...been without for 3 months or so, got the parts to fix it headed my way tho, hopefully it'll be resolved this week!

How's your foot? Pancaked or just hurting?

foot is fine. swelling went down within a couple hours and i finished the tear down of the strut at least